For Harrison Ford, close calls aren’t just in movies

Somewhat like the characters he has played on screen, Harrison Ford has run into real-life danger while indulging in his love of aviation, fast driving and the unpredictability of filmmaking.

Here are a few of his closer brushes:

• The scar on his face that lends him a rakish look was earned, he’s said, in “a mundane way.” In 1964, he was speeding to a job at a department store in Orange County, California, when his car veered off the road and into a telephone pole as he fumbled for his seat belt.

• In 1999, Ford crash-landed his helicopter during a training flight in which he and an instructor were practicing auto rotations in Ventura County, northwest of Los Angeles. Ford and the instructor were unhurt.

• He used his helicopter in 2000 to pluck an Idaho Falls, Idaho, hiker off 11,106-foot Table Mountain in Teton County, Wyoming, and fly her to a hospital.

• Ford was at the helm of a Beechcraft Bonanza in 2000 when wind shear forced him to make an emergency landing at Lincoln Municipal Airport in Nebraska. Ford and his passenger were uninjured.

• Last year, he was filming “Star Wars: Episode VII” in a studio outside London when a door of his character Han Solo’s Millennium Falcon spacecraft fell and broke the actor’s leg, requiring surgery. He recovered and returned to complete his work on the movie.